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Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...
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Our study analyzes the effect of the capital gains tax on the individual investment decisions of venture capitalists. By doing so, we are able to study the decisions for a sample of 76,852 funding rounds in 32 countries from 2000 to 2012. Our results support the predictions of the theoretical...
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lack of evidence-based knowledge regarding different dimensions of innovation prevails. One important dimension that must … transactional costs. In that sense, many have argued that innovation can contribute to improve the public service quality and … consensus about the increase of management innovation practices over the last two decades. However, as in other countries, the …
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with a currently inferior product opts for a large but risky innovation, whereas a currently superior product chooses a … smaller but certain innovation. …
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In a patent thicket licensing provides a mechanism to either avoid or resolve hold up. We study the choice between ex ante licensing to avoid hold up and ex post licensing to resolve it. Firms’ choice of licensing contract is studied in the context of a patent portfolio race. We show that high...
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This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...
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. Results suggest that the incidence of leisure time invention is positively related to exposure to a variety of knowledge …
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long-term dynamics of innovation, and the intergenerational accumulation of knowledge. Innovation cycles emerge …We study social learning and innovation in an overlapping generations model, emphasizing the trade-off between marginal … innovation (combining existing technologies) and radical innovation (breaking new ground). We characterize both short-term and …
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In this paper we investigate the factors that lead firms to cooperate withpartners from foreign countries on innovation … activities. Portuguese and Germandata from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us tocompare innovation … importance of protectionmethods for knowledge have a positive influence in both countries on thedecision to cooperate with …
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